Alfred Marshall Quotes

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

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• We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Years
  • Cutting
  • Traditional

• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
  • World
  • Mother
  • Myself

• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• We are all terminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Terminal

• I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Feel
  • Problems
  • Discouraged

• Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • Woman
  • Pleasure
  • Bed

• Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Movie
  • Television
  • Three

• I never liked you, and I always will.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Wisdom

• I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Power
  • Best

• Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Support
  • Myself

• I've got nothing to be ashamed of.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Nothing
  • Got
  • Ashamed

• As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Captain

• To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Find
  • Kiss
  • Prince

• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Genius
  • Note
  • Cornwall

• Frankly, whatever assistance people get from FEMA will not have a lot of extras built into it, so they will need every dollar.

  

  Gene Green
  • People

• Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Live
  • Book
  • History

• In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • School
  • True

• If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Wishes

• My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Family
  • Money
  • Party

• All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

  

  Alfred Marshall